| Smalltown Acquires Local2Me for Its Active User Base and Deep Local ...
SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Smalltown(R) (http://www.smalltown.com), the company building the "Local Web" comprised of user and merchant generated content sites that connect businesses and their neighbors, today announced the purchase of Local2Me, a seven-year-old online community. Both Smalltown and Local2Me have developed platforms that enable people to ask questions and receive answers from their own neighbors, creating a repository of deep, trusted local knowledge. The Local2Me service has thousands of dedicated users and over 30,000 discussions about local topics. This acquisition accelerates Smalltown's deep dive into the San Francisco Peninsula market, shortening the timeline for their national rollout. "Local2Me is a vibrant virtual community where people in the Bay Area have been discussing everything in their real communities since 2000," said Hal Rucker, CEO and co-founder of Smalltown.
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Merchant Risk Council Recommends Businesses Incorporate Extended ...
SEATTLE, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Merchant Risk Council (MRC), the retail industry's premier trade association for preventing online fraud and promoting secure e-commerce, announces the organization's recent incorporation of Trustwave's Extended Validation SSL Certificate to the Merchant Risk Council's Web site. Trustwave is a Certificate Authority (CA) and has issued SSL certificates to thousands of businesses worldwide. SSL is used to protect confidential information, such as credit card numbers or passwords, sent between Web users and Web sites. SSL, which stands for Secure Sockets Layer, Extended Validation (EV) certificates provide an additional layer of protection through a strictly defined issuance process to ensure that the certificate holding entity is validated as the entity they claim to be.
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